In comp.unix.solaris aryzhov@spasu.net wrote:
> Also, after ufsrestore or cpio, you have to run installboot, which
> calculates the physical offset of
> ufsboot binary (it is always different whenever you re-create the
> filesystem and do restore in separate steps).

'installboot' is a shell script that runs 'dd' to copy the blocks in
place.  I see nothing in that script that "calculates" a physical offset
other than the fact that it always starts with block 1 of the slice.
There is no difference between installs.

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